The Nations of Canada

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Episode 270: Lord Beaverbrook Oct 08, 2025

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1909. A hustler from New Brunswick exemplifies a novel class of stock brokers and promoters who transform Canada's financial environment, and usher in a new era of industrial consolidation and economic inequality in Canada.
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Episode 269: Degraded by Yankee Professionalism Oct 01, 2025

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1908. In southwestern Ontario, oilmen, brewers, and cabinet-makers forge a complicated relationship with a different nation-defining sport - baseball.
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Episode 268: The Athletic War Sep 24, 2025

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1908. From Montreal and Toronto, to the mines of Timiskaming and old Rat Portage, Canadians battle over the soul of the nation's most important institution - hockey.
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Episode 267: Our Nationalism is Canadian Nationalism Sep 17, 2025

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1908. Disillusioned with Wilfrid Laurier's Liberal party, a group of French Canadians commemorate the 300th anniversary of the founding of Quebec by mapping out a new kind of Canadian nationalism.
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Episode 266: A Canadian Diplomat Sep 10, 2025

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1908. In the aftermath of the Vancouver anti-Asian race riot, Canadian officials visit Tokyo, Washington, London, Bombay, Shanghai, and Beijing - in the process, crafting a position for Canada on the international stage.
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Episode 265: A White Man's Country Sep 03, 2025

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September 1907: An anti-Asian race riot in Vancouver thrusts Canada into the centre of a multi-faceted trans-Pacific geopolitical puzzle involving Japan, Britain, the United States, and India.
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Episode 264: Bell Canada Aug 27, 2025

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1907. A new technology sparks national debates about public utilities, labour relations, and gender.
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Episode 263: The Killing Winter Aug 20, 2025

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1906-1907. A coal miner's strike in southern Alberta restricts the supply of fuel on the prairies, just as the region enters the coldest winter on record.
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Episode 262: Another Railroad or Two Aug 13, 2025

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1906. Hoping to encourage a national railroad to rival the Tory-aligned CPR, Liberal Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier gets more than he bargained for.
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Episode 261: A Temple of Energy Aug 06, 2025

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1905. After more than thirty years of Liberal rule in Ontario, a new Conservative government makes a splash by re-writing the rules of the hydroelectricity industry.
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